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CIA director claims to know whereabouts of bin Laden
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-20 09:25
The director of the CIA says he has an "excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden
is hiding, but that the United States' respect for sovereign nations makes it
more difficult to capture the al-Qaida chief.
In an interview with Time for the magazine's June 27 issue, Porter Goss was
asked about the progress of the hunt for bin Laden.
'Weak links' in Washington's war on terror
make it unlikely that Osama bin Laden will be apprehended in the near
future, CIA Director Porter Goss, pictured May 2005, said in a magazine
interview, although he has an 'excellent idea' of the Al-Qaeda leader's
whereabouts.[AFP/File] | "When you go to the question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states,
you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair
play," Goss said. "We have to find a way to work in a conventional world in
unconventional ways."
Asked whether that meant he knew where bin Laden is, Goss responded: "I have
an excellent idea where he is. What's the next question?"
Goss did not say where he thinks bin Laden is, nor did he specify what
country or countries he was referring to when he spoke of foreign sanctuaries.
But American officials have long said they believed bin Laden was hiding in
rugged mountains along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
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